"The Casino", Gun Hill - Southwold, Suffolk
Posted by: SMacB
N 52° 19.347 E 001° 40.738
31U E 409965 N 5797724
Octagonal building on Gun Hill, Southwold, known locally as the Casino.
Waymark Code: WMKY0R
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/11/2014
Views: 5
Known locally as the Casino. The word originally meant a pavilion constructed for pleasure and this Casino was built buy James Thompson, a local wealthy merchant, as a reading room during the late 18th century.
The building has been a library, a reading room and a coastguard lookout. Now the octagonal Casino on Gun Hill at Southwold is a radio station. (
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It is a grade II listed building - (
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